Rich Man — out September 30 (Concord Music Group) — reveals that the intervening fifteen years hadn’t fundamentally changed much about Bramhall, not even after major collaborations with Clapton, The Tedeschi Trucks Band, Sheryl Crow, Elton John and a host of some of biggest names in rock, soul, blues and country. This is without a doubt the same guy who made Jellycream and Welcome during the late Clinton years, and one could see that as a lack of progression or musical growth. But it shouldn’t be viewed that way, because Rich Man is actually a consolidation of his strengths as a straight-up rocker, Texas bluesman and modern soul crooner, self-produced in the psychedelic soul style of The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach.